#ben benson

[newyorkthegoldenage]

In an unusual procession of four hansom cabs, 12 hoboes do their part in the 7th War Loan Drive, May 31, 1945. Driving along the streets of midtown Manhattan to Times Square, they bought $1,225 in war bonds and made speeches urging onlookers to follow their example. Cigar smoking Boxcar Betty, center, and Ben Benson, "King and Queen of the Hoboes," buy bonds from Gertrude Fox of the U.S. Treasury War Savings staff. The procession started at the offices of the Hobo News, and was led by Benson and Pat Mulkern, editor and publisher of the Hobo News.

Photo: Charles Kenneth Lucas for the AP via The Conversation

[dragonfirefoxx]

Luke Guinaldo and Ben Benson

[mudwerks]

Bantam 2223 - 1961

1961; Seven steps East by Ben Benson. unknown artist.

[seattlemysterybooks]

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1957 Mill hardcover

1959 Bantam reissue, first print

cover art by Barye Phillips

5th novel with Trooper Ralph Lindsey

Seattle Mystery Bookshop

[amsaklapper-blog]

Ben Benson Calibre 7.65

A Wade Paris investigation. One among my favorite private-eyes.  French language edition of Alibi at dusk (translated by Igor B. Maslowski)

collection “Un Mystère” (# 87, Presses de la Cité, 1952)

source:amsaklapper’s collection

[seattlemysterybooks]

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1959 Mill hardcover

1961 Bantam paperback reissue

Seattle Mystery Bookshop

[seattlemysterybooks]

flickr

1955 Mill hardcover

1957 Bantam reissue

cover art by Barye Phillips

Seattle Mystery Bookshop

[amsaklapper-blog]

Stamped for Murder

“La mort franco de port” - edition in french language of one of my favorite Wade Paris’ investigations written by Ben Benson. Published in the collection “Un Mystère” (#111, 1953), translated by Igor B. Maslowski.

Publisher: Presses de la Cité

source:amsaklapper’s collection